Nuclear water worry

Press, 1 October 1979, Page 9

Nuclear water worry

s’ZPA-Reuter Washington Radioactive water from Jie damaged Three Mile .siand nuclear power plant In Pennsylvania could exceed Its storage capacity within ♦0 days and be released into the environment, a Senate sub-committee has said. The Senate Nuclear Regulation Sub-committee, which has been investigating the accident at Three Mile Island In March, asked the Federal Government’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission to report »n alternative storage methods

"Currently there are more than one million gallons of Contaminated water stored at ihe site and the volume is

hcreasing due to a leak in W let-down line drawing doling water from the nutar core of the reactor,” sub-committee said in a liter to the N.R.C. chairfin (Mr Joseph Hendrie). the sub-committee said th estimated storage capacI'Would be exceeded within *b\it 40 days. ' partial, melt-down and the. resulting radio-active leajat the Three Mile Island reactor on March 2R tauad -he evacuation of of people from the area;